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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Infertility is another side effect.  It is epidemic in the middle east, with as many as 25% of all couples unable to reproduce because of consanguinity.  Iran pays for in vitro, surrogacy, donor eggs etc at state-run facilities because it has no choice if the population is to survive.[/quote]
Persians don't actually marry cousins very often, and they have fewer children, making cousin marriage even less possible.

Unlike Saudi, where first cousins can easily number 50+, and the choices are much greater. [/quote]

Google is your friend, my dear. Persians most definitely do practice consanguineous marriages, with devastating effects on their fertility.[/quote]

Iranians do practice consanguineous marriage, but nowhere near the rate of the Gulf area.  But Iran has an infertility rate of nearly 25%, the highest in the world.  Perhaps not so coincidentally, Iran also has one of the highest rates of STDs in the world, particularly chlamydia, which is known to affect fertility.  Estimates of chlamydia rates in Iranian women range from 12% to 21% vs 0.6% in U.S. women.

Here is an article that puts it together:

http://www.meforum.org/5000/strategic-implications-iran-std

Some may argue that this is a biased publication, and I would generally agree.  However, it is based on references that come from academic studies by Iranians like the following and the thesis of high STDs thus high infertility in Iran seems relatively well supported:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3398636/[/quote]

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